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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by maxxxxx on Friday March 16, 2018 @01:23PM (#16602256)
If the result is that we have moved from MS straight into the arms of Google we have won nothing. I wish LibreOffice would get more dev investment from big companies. As of now they are unfortunately way behind MS Office in terms of usability and design.
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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by severino on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:07PM (#16603176)
> If the result is that we have moved from MS straight into the arms of Google we have won nothing

We would have won, at least, the freedom to use the operating system of our choice. Microsoft software means you eventually need to use theirs.

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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by Sylos on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:28PM (#16603344)
Instead, they force you to use their browser. It's not terribly different.
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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by severino on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:08PM (#16604350)
That's not true, but I bet it takes a little more to install a new OS in your computer than to install a new browser.
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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by themacguffinman on Friday March 16, 2018 @04:08PM (#16603656)
How? G Suite works on all mainstream browsers.
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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by Sylos on Saturday March 17, 2018 @12:56AM (#16605660)
Hangouts didn't work for a long time on Firefox. They fixed it around a month ago or so, but that's pretty much three years after they knew that this problem would arise (deprecation of NPAPI plugins in Firefox).

For other parts, for example GMail, I've heard that they don't work as well on Firefox.

And to some degree, this is also just what I expect to see more of in the future, as outside of G Suite they're not exactly known for treating other browsers well either. Android Firefox in particular gets bullied by Google a lot. Last time I checked, the Google Custom Search that webpages can embed, just straight up returned a 404 when contacted by a browser with Android Firefox user-agent. And they serve some age-old version of google.com to it.

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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by jenscow on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:38PM (#16603436)
Much much better than being forced to use an OS that you dislike.

Installing an additional browser is a nice sacrifice.

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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by em3rgent0rdr on Saturday March 17, 2018 @01:10AM (#16605682)
Unfortunately MS keeps changing their doc format, so LibreOffice always has to play catch-up simply to maintain compatibility.
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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by scrumper on Friday March 16, 2018 @11:19PM (#16605444)
And moving slower too. Office at least has fairly regular upgrades. Google Apps has barely changed in years.
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